1.0.70 is up, and it's aimed at what you said about the tenth catch. Animals no longer all go down the same way: waterside birds only come to bait near the water, tree climbers bolt up a trunk and come back down if you stay still, and animals that charge can be sidestepped, and they're down for a moment when they miss. Each one gets written into the field guide the first time it happens to you.
If you give it another go, I'd like to know whether the stretch after ten catches still drags.